Am I just being, speaking out as it is so well defined by the department
of homeland security, nothing but a mouth breathing, provincial knuckle
dragging, domestic white male terrorist?

Or am I correct in
pointing out the truth, the truth that our military is absent from the
idea of Liberty? Is it populated with cowards? Traitors by way of
inaction even? What? I can not figure it out.

Every one who is in
the military has taken a solemn vow, an oath that says in it, it is
their duty to protect and defend the US Constitution, (and by
consequence, we the people), from All Enemies, Foreign and Domestic.

The question is, what of that oath?

Lt.
Colonel Terry Larkin, far as I can determine, is the only Military man
who has taken the stand of Liberty, honored his oath to protect and
defend The US Constitution from the blatant outright Tyranny that
constitutes our representative government today.
That system of tyranny, kangaroo'd courted Lt. Col Larkin straight to a jail cell in a new york minute.
For the crime of not ignoring his oath.
Mmmmmm....

Is the truth something like this:

I
have not heard of one fellow officer or enlisted man, within this
brotherhood, defend the one guy who stood up and honored their oath, the
oath that they all took.

Have any of you out there?

So it comes to reason.
It
is reason that created the idea of a Constitutional Republic. It is men
who chose reason to guide them in their dream of Liberty.
It is reason that leads me to this:

If
everyone in uniform is afraid to defend their own within the ranks, out
of principle, with virtue, for the cause of Liberty, is it too far a
stretch of to suppose there is no help coming for American's from this
quarter, fellow Americans who choose Liberty or Death over tyranny,
Americans outside the military.
I mean if they can't stick up for their own, how are they going to stick up for their country?

Whats wrong with this picture?

Whats going on here guys?

What part of Defend and Protect The US Constitution from ALL Enemies Foreign and Domestic does anyone not understand?

Far
as I can see, answer to this question of questions, the truth of this
sorry reality, is the absence of that oath being honored, says
everything.

Shame.
Eternal everlasting shame.

Tell me I am wrong, please.

We got a little boy drawing pictures of Chickens that are fed up. A little boy who understands the tyranny enveloping us. ( Civil War 2 - The Chickens Have Had Enough! )
We
got a million deer hunters that by many accounts are useless, who don't
stand a snowballs chance in hell of honoring their oath of being rule
of law abiding America's, who via lawful means of redress codified in
Constitutional law express their desire to right these injustices of
tyranny. That their need to throw off the chains of despotism is
fruitless, unless, they do what guys who took an oath tell them to do.
Well maybe those wise military minds are correct, might be they are not,
but one things certain, those deer hunters, and fed up chickens too,
got one thing in spades over the vast majority of those in the
military...

Care to hazard a guess what it is?

Why does a
little boy understand what this is about and has the virtue to express
his concerns, but an entire army, the greatest mightiest military force
the history of the human race has known, essentially mum?

Some argue that Ron Paul
was never relevant, that he was simply a gadfly who never accomplished
anything legislatively. Others, myself included, argue that maybe, just
maybe, the Ron Paul Revolution is the last best hope for saving the GOP from oblivion.

As
I walk through airports, ride in taxis and meet people in large cities —
people of color, working-class people, people with tattoos, people in
overalls, people with piercings and even, at times, people in suits — I
am amazed at the diversity of folks who come up and say how much they
admire Ron Paul.

The naysayers will point out: “He didn’t even win a primary.” This is true, but when polled directly against President Obama, Ron Paul ran neck-and-neck with an interesting demographic. In the heat of the campaign, a Feb. 28 Rasmussen poll showed him leading Mr. Obama,
winning the independent vote, taking a significant part of the
Democratic vote and losing a significant part of the Republican vote. He
truly attracted voters across the political divide from both parties
and from independents.
His colleagues in Congress
would ask with envy, “How do you raise so much money from the youth?
From the Internet?” The truth was much more revealing. College students,
welders, carpenters, maids, blacks, whites and Hispanics latched onto Ron Paul’s
unique message of fiscal conservatism, personal privacy and liberty and
a less bellicose foreign policy, one of taking care of things at home
before sending our soldiers and our money abroad. It is and was the
message that attracted the youth, the message that combined the fiscal
conservatism and limited constitutional government of Republicans and a
more restrained foreign policy sometimes exhibited by Democrats.

When the GOP examines itself to try to regain its mojo, I hope Republicans will look at the message of Ron Paul, because as it stands now, the GOP
is a dinosaur that can’t compete on the West Coast, in New England or
in the Great Lakes region. Before the powers that be call for abandoning
our limited-government principles, maybe we should look at how Ron Paul
adhered more consistently to the first principles of our founders and,
in the process, found a unique and diverse coalition that actually could
have competed in a world not controlled by a two-party system.

In 1984, my father wrote a farewell address when he left Congress
for the first time. He went back to delivering babies for 12 years. He
didn’t think he would ever return to government. At that time, he wrote:

“Thousands
of men and women have come and gone here in our country’s history, and
except for the few, most go unnoticed and remain nameless in the pages
of history, as I am sure I will be. The few who are remembered are those
who were able to grab the reins of power and, for the most part, use
that power to the detriment of the nation. We must remember that
achieving power is never the goal sought by a truly free society.
Dissipation of power is the objective of those who love liberty.”

While
his conclusion is still true — dissipation of power is and should be
the objective of those who love liberty — the idea that my father will
remain nameless in the pages of history is far from accurate. You may
not see highways or schools named after Ron Paul.
Pundits may not refer to the Ron Paul bill (that is, unless by some
miracle Sen. Harry Reid lets us vote to audit the Fed). My father’s
imprint will not be in Washington but in the minds of the millions of
today’s youth who found the message of liberty through a certain
congressman from Texas.

For inspiring a new generation to love the
ideas of liberty, we all owe a debt of gratitude to my father, the
champion of liberty, Ron Paul.

Author Dinesh D’Souza told Newsmax TV in an exclusive interview on Friday that the documentary he co-directed – “2016: Obama's America” – is even more relevant now in light of President Barack Obama’s re-election last week.

“This is the sort of relevance of ‘2016.’ The film, oddly enough, would
be obsolete had Romney won, but is now very relevant that Obama’s there
now,” D’Souza told Newsmax at Restoration Weekend 2012 in Palm Beach,
Fla. “The film, in a way, looks at what would happen if Obama had his
way.

“It’s almost as if we removed all obstacles, checks and balances, we
removed the court, the Republican Congress. What if Obama could run
unmolested? But, of course, he won’t. He’s going to have
counterbalancing forces.

“On his own side in the Democratic Party, you have the mainstream
Democrats and you have the left. Now, the left knows what Obama is
doing. He is pursuing decline – and they want decline. This seems odd.

“I could go to a hundred American campuses and say: ‘America’s the rogue
nation in the world. It’s America’s nuclear arsenal, not Iran’s that’s
the problem. We should put the leash on America.’ And I’d get thunderous
applause at Berkeley, Oberlin College, Yale.

“So there’s plenty of people on the left who have this sort of ‘let’s shrink America’ ideology,” D’Souza said.

A Florida canvassing board decided to begin counting this morning all
37,379 ballots from early voting in the race between Republican U.S.
Rep. Allen West and Democrat Patrick Murphy.

St. Lucie County's decision, split 2-1, is at least a temporary victory
for West, who trails Murphy by less than 2,000 votes in the race for
Florida's 18th District seat covering St. Lucie, Martin and Palm Beach
counties.

"We are pleased the Canvassing Board has done the right thing for the
voters of St Lucie County by agreeing to a retabulation of early votes,"
said West in a press release. "All we have been fighting for since the
very beginning is to ensure the citizens of this county have their votes
accurately and fairly counted."

By early Saturday morning, Murphy's legal team sought an injuction in circuit court to stop the recount.

Shortly before 10 a.m. Murphy lawyer Liz Powers told the canvassing
board of the action but county attorneys had not received word. The
recount began shortly after 10 a.m.

West fired back at Murphy, issuing a statement:

"In a last-ditch effort to suppress the vote, Murphy's lawyers submitted
sloppy and incomplete papers to the Court this morning to try to
strong-arm the judge into preventing today's retabulation already
underway. The Murphy team's motion is procedurally and substantively
lacking. With every action attempted, Murphy demonstrates a complete
lace of respect and utter disregard for the voters of St. Lucie County.

"Murphy's efforts bring to mind the dark times in our nation's history
when politicians tried to manipulate the law to suppress the votes, and
we are appalled by Murphy's apparent contempt for the voting rights of
citizens to have their ballots accurately and fairly tabulated."

The canvassing board’s decision to recount came late Friday, hours after
Treasure Coast Circuit Judge Dan Vaughn declined to intervene in the
case, declining a request from West that he order a full recount of all
early votes.

According to The Palm Beach Post:
"After Vaughn’s ruling, the canvassing board held a lengthy and at
times heated meeting in which elections officials revealed that 306
ballots had gone uncounted and the attorney for St. Lucie County
Elections Supervisor Gertrude Walker announced that the elections chief
was in the hospital."

A complex series of low pressure
systems will affect the U.S. coast near North Carolina through early
next week, and a powerful Nor'easter is expected to develop off the
North Carolina coast on Monday, then move northeastwards out to sea. The
storm will be too far from coastal areas of New Jersey and New York
hard-hit by Sandy to cause more than minor coastal flooding, thankfully.
However, high winds, heavy rain, and coastal flooding are expected to
affect the coast of North Carolina beginning on Saturday, with the peak
winds and greatest coastal flooding likely to occur on Sunday and
Monday.

Minor to moderate flooding will occur along much of the Northeast North Carolina coast,
and coastal Highway 12 that connects the Outer Banks to the mainland
will probably be cut. Hurricane Sandy pummeled the Outer Banks of North
Carolina in late October, causing $13 million in damage.
Sandy weakened or wiped out the protective dunes along a long section
of coast, and caused significant damage to coastal Highway 12. As a
result, all it takes is a high tide to cause overwash on this vital
artery. The road was closed on Tuesday due to overwash during the high
tide cycles, and requires a 4-wheel-drive vehicle to navigate it due to
the extensive damage it has suffered over the past two weeks. Residents
of the Outer Banks must take a 2-hour ferry ride to get to the mainland when Highway 12 is cut.

An early morning FBI raid has a District Heights family in fear. The
agents came into the house and drew their guns at the family’s daughter,
but she wasn’t armed.

“They almost hit my daughter, man,” says Emory Hughley.
“If I hadn’t told her to go back in her room they probably would have
shot her.”

Hughley says he was asleep in the basement when he heard a bang at
the front door. His 18-year-old daughter Myasia was upstairs in her room
with two friends who were spending the night. Around 6 a.m. he says he
came up to the living room and saw 15 FBI SWAT agents coming inside,
guns drawn.
“I’m shouting ‘Nobody is armed, nobody has a gun!’ and then all of a
sudden I heard ‘She’s got a gun!’ and they just opened fire,” he says.

Hughley says he looked up and saw his daughter standing outside her bedroom in the hallway. Then he heard gunfire.

“I’ve got eight holes in my wall. One bullet went past my head,
almost hit me, ricocheted off my brick wall and some of the shrap metal
hit my little daughter in the back of her neck, all for nothing.” says
Hughley.

Myasia was treated at a local hospital for a flesh wound and released.

The House
science committee is demanding the White House explain why top
administration officials are using secret e-mail accounts and other
techniques to conceal their taxpayer-paid activities from public
oversight.

The evidence of officials’ efforts to evade transparency laws
includes EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson’s use of the fake name “Richard
Windsor”, and hidden e-mail accounts, according to a Nov. 16 letter sent by the committee to several White House officials, including Jackson.

The committee’s letters justified their startling statements with
evidence published in The Daily Caller. The Caller’s report was based on
an investigation by Chris Horner, a senior fellow at the Competitive
Enterprise Institute and the author of a new book “The Liberal War on on
Transparency.”
“The use of these [hidden] accounts could seriously impair records
collection, preservation, and access, therefore compromising
transparency and oversight,” said the letter, signed by committee
chairman Rep. Ralph Hall.

The letter also asked Jackson’s office to provide all records related
to “‘Richard Windsor’ or other aliases used by the EPA Administrator or
senior management…. [plus] records relating to the establishment or use
of dual, secondary, or non-public email accounts.”

In the wake of hurricane Isaac, Baton Rouge, Louisiana spent $4 million dollars setting up emergency food stamp application sites which eventually distributed $12 million in benefits.

Hurricane Isaac struck the gulf coast the last week of August 2012 and was responsible for nine deaths. In the wake of the disaster, emergency food stamp sites were set up at six locations in Baton Rouge. In that city alone $4.2 million was spent on renting everything from chairs to port-a-potties to food service.

According to records examined by CBS affiliate WAFB, $360,000 was spent renting 240 portable toilets, over 112 of which were delivered to one location. Nearly half a million dollars was spent catering food and snacks for state workers.

WAFB notes that the $4.2 million spent in Baton Rouge did not include the salaries of state workers. The cost of setting up the distributions sites was split between the state of Louisiana and the federal government.

A total of $12.4 million in food stamps were distributed as a result of the effort, less than triple what was spent on the distribution effort itself.

Medical supply giant Stryker is the latest company to announce job
cuts in anticipation of coming costs associated with ObamaCare, even
though the man who inherited a fortune from the company's founder is a
fan.

The company will cut 1,170 jobs, or five percent of its worldwide
workforce, despite the fact that the founder's grandson was one of the
largest contributors to President Obama’s re-election campaign. Medical
tech scion Jon Stryker, whose net worth is currently estimated at $1.2
billion, contributed $2 million to the Priorities USA Action super PAC
and has given $66,000 in contributions to Obama and the Democratic
Party. Stryker does not run the company.

A "medical device excise tax" included in the mandate imposes a 2.3
percent levy on medical device manufacturers and suppliers, which
critics say will raise prices on everything from pacemakers to
prosthetics to stents. Companies will be required to pay the tax
regardless if they have a profit or loss for the year. The tax is
estimated to cost the medical device industry $20 billion.

House Republicans tried to have the tax repealed, drafting a bill
called the Protect Medical Innovation Act, but the Democrat-controlled
Senate has blocked the measure.

A gun shop in Arizona has a clear message to would-be customers who
happened to vote for President Barack Obama: take your business
elsewhere.

Southwest Shooting Authority in Pinetop, Ariz. took out an advertisement last week in the local newspaper, the White Mountain Independent, that spelled out the store's new policy in explicit terms.
"If you voted for Barack Obama your business is not welcome at
Southwest Shooting Authority," the ad reads. "You have proven that you
are not responsible enough to own a firearm."

A sign on the store's front door contains a similar message. Cope
Reynolds, the owner of the Southwest Shooting Authority, posted a letter
on the website AmmoLand shortly after the election last week to explain his motives, writing that his personal convictions trump profit:

From Gaza City to Tel Aviv, rockets kept flying, people kept dying and fear and anger on both sides kept growing.

For all the bloodshed
thus far -- including at least 30 killed in Gaza since Wednesday,
according to a Palestinian government website, and Israel reporting
three deaths in Kiryat Malachi -- there has been little indication the
situation will calm any time soon.

In fact, fears are rising
that the opposite will hold true. Israel's Cabinet on Friday approved
the activation of up to 75,000 reservists, prime minister's spokesman
Mark Regev said. Also, the Israel Defense Forces reported earlier in the
day that it is "mobilizing forces" in preparation for a "possible
ground invasion of the Gaza Strip."

A
GREAT article about the Obama campaign's electronic 'ground game',
Narwhal, how they put it together, tested it to fail multiple times, and
made it work. Compared to Team Mitten's Orca (which FAILED miserably),
this is a great example of how things SHOULD be done. EVERY person
with any interest in being involved in a campaign in the future SHOULD
READ THIS ARTICLE!

Remember that Orca hadn't really been tested
until election day? Here's what the Narwhal team did 17 days before
the election: "We worked through every possible disaster situation,"
Reed said. "We did three actual all-day sessions of destroying
everything we had built."

Money quote: "We knew what to do,"
Reed maintained, no matter what the scenario was. "We had a runbook that
said if this happens, you do this, this, and this. They did not do that
with Orca."

No, they didn't, and it showed. Yet another Team Romney FAIL!

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The Obama campaign's technologists were tense and tired. It was game day and everything was going wrong.
Josh Thayer, the lead engineer of Narwhal, had just been informed
that they'd lost another one of the services powering their software.
That was bad: Narwhal was the code name for the data platform that
underpinned the campaign and let it track voters and volunteers. If it
broke, so would everything
else.
They were talking with people at Amazon Web Services, but all they
knew was that they had packet loss. Earlier that day, they lost their
databases, their
East Coast servers, and their memcache clusters. Thayer was ready to
kill Nick Hatch, a DevOps engineer who was the official bearer of bad
news. Another of
their vendors, PalominoDB, was fixing databases, but needed to
rebuild the replicas. It was going to take time, Hatch said. They didn't
have time.
They'd been working 14-hour days, six or seven days a week, trying
to reelect the president, and now everything had been broken at just the
wrong
time. It was like someone had written a Murphy's Law algorithm and
deployed it at scale.

They'd been working 14-hour days, six or
seven days a week, trying to reelect the president, and now everything
had been broken at just the wrong time.

And that was the point. "Game day" was October 21. The election was
still 17 days away, and this was a live action role playing (LARPing!)
exercise that
the campaign's chief technology officer, Harper Reed, was inflicting
on his team. "We worked through every possible disaster situation,"
Reed said. "We did
three actual all-day sessions of destroying everything we had
built."

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Core Creek Militia

==============================My sixth great grandfather, his wife, and five of his six children were killed in battle with the Tuscarora Indians at Core Creek, NC.

The Seven Blackbirds

==============================My third great grandfather was an Ensign in the Revolutionary War, and saved his unit's flag after being wounded at the Battle of Brandywine. He was also at Kingston (Kinston), Wilmington, Charleston, Two Sisters and Augusta. He was at the defeat at Brier Creek and also Bee Creek.

Requiem Aeternam -
Eternal Rest Grant unto Them
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My second great grandfather was killed in action on May 3, 1863 at the Battle of Chancellorsville.
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My great grandfather and great uncle knew all the men in the "Civil War Requiem" video as they were part of the 53rd NC which was the sole unit defending Fort Mahone. (Fort Mahone was named "Fort Damnation" by the Yankees) *Handpicked men of the 53rd (My great grandfather was one of these) made the final, night assault at Petersburg in an attempt to break Grant's line. This was against Fort Stedman which was a few miles to the slight northeast. They initially succeeded, but reinforcements drove them back. This video is made from photographs which were taken the day after the 53rd evacuated the lines the night before to begin the retreat to Appomattox. I have many more pictures taken by the same photographer, one of these shows a 14 year old boy and the other is the famous picture of the blond, handsome soldier with his musket.
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*General Gordon promised the men a gold medal and 30 days leave if they accomplished their task and many years after the War my great grandfather wrote General Gordon, who was then governor of Georgia about this incident. They exchanged several letters which I have framed. See first link below.
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*The Attack On Fort Stedman
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"His Colored Friends"
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Lee's Surrender
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My Black NC Kinfolks
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Punished For Being Caught!

Great Grandfather Koonce

He was a drummer boy in the WBTS, survived the War only to die a few years later. He was caught in an ice storm on his way home, but instead of seeking shelter, continued on his horse until the end. His clothes had to be cut off and he died a few days later.

Thank you

I would just like you to know how so very glad I am that I found your blog. I have learned more history from you and the many links that you post than I have from reading all my history books. I can never thank you enough for the education you are freely giving me. It is priceless. And eye opening.

Many times I will not comment, but that does not mean I am not reading and learning.

You sir, are an educator. Thank you.

PhyllisWantage, NJ

Good morning Mr. Townsend,

Just to let you know I have finally finished that massive tome on General Lee. I never knew 1/10th of what a great man he was. No wonder the South is so proud of him! So sad that we have few men of his caliber today. We need them desperately. I have learned more history through you and your blog than I thought I could ever learn. I am very grateful to you. Thank you so much for taking time to answer my e-mail. And thank you for your blog and for opening my eyes.

PhyllisWantage, NJ

".......So good to hear from you! And also so pleased you are converting more of us Yankees! You have no idea how many people you have taught. And how many are so grateful to you for showing us the truth."

Your faithful friend,

Phylis

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I have also learned from Brock Townsend and two nurses lately, that appreciation expressed by someone for whom you have great respect overwhelms the lack of appreciation by some from whom you expect it. I believe that we cannot really know which small bit of help makes the life-saving difference. ﻿

I have learned more history from you than all the years I was supposed to be in school (and not out hunting or fishing).

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I really must say, I like thousands of others have said, your blog is the best out there and with all of your history and experience, you should run for *president. I look forward to reading your blog every day and every day I learn from you. Thank you for the time you put into this effort .

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